Not obvious, but Josh French has committed changes for the next release that will allow extension developers to configure dependencies from the extension which might help with the installation process as far as things like error messages go. There will be more development on this in the future.
One thing that we don't have is a way of ensuring that the proper version of an extension is installed from the get-go. I'm in the arguably bad habit of manually installing everything, so I was unaware of some of the problems that occur when trying to install extensions via script/extension or ray.
To wit, using an installer to install a 0.8-style extension will fail if your base Radiant install is 0.7 or earlier. Because the extension is checked out at its head, the environment fails and neither rake:migrate nor rake:update can be run until the extension is frozen to a compatible tag/version. This could be solved by adding a version argument to the install method, or by baking knowledge of the current Radiant version into the installer.
I've been tagging the extensions I'm involved with for compatibility at versions 0.7.1 and 0.8.0, but I've also been wondering if it wouldn't be better to maintain those via branches instead of tags -- have a 0.7 branch to hold bugfixes, but continue new development in 0.8 and so on.
Thoughts on how best to manage extensions across multiple, possibly incompatible, versions of Radiant?
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